Labor Day MP3s: " Tomorrow is Labor Day in the USA (not to confuse with the un-American and communist 'May Day' celebrated in other parts of the world), and here is a bunch of pertinent and patriotic audio goodies to go with it.

Janeen Brady - Free Enterprise (MP3): The one and only Janeen Brady, who also brought us the legendary hymn 'I'm A Mormon' (available on the 365 Days Project), wrote this song praising the virtues of Free Enterprise, competition and hustling hot chocolate. Taken from the wholesome children's album 'Take Your Hat Off When The Flag Goes By'.

Amway Singers - Recruit, Train and Motivate (MP3): If you don't have a job, stop whining and join the largest pyramid scheme in the nation. It is easy, and this song tells you how, introducing the fundamental American virtue of screwing over your friends and neighbors.

Michael Brown - The Woolworth Manager's Work Song (MP3): Most people never realized how hard it is to be a Woolworth manager. We post this song as our Labor Day present to the Woolworth managers of this world. So pleas"

Elsewhere in Austria: "As you might have noticed i'm in Austria for the ars electronica festival. And it's quite hot here. So i was amazed to discover today an image of lovely pigs walking in the snow near Schruns, a village in the Austrian alps. Apparently the temperatures there are so unusually cold that the highest areas of the mountains are now covered with snow.

Cloud Appreciation (Edmundson): "Readers of dreamy disposition may find the Cloud Appreciation Society as irresistable as I do. It is based in London, but it should not be confused with the Mushroom Cloud Anticipation Society, which has a London office but is headquartered..."